Overview I was going to blog about Unit Testing non-public members of classes using inheritance, class helpers and test interfaces but the more I refactored my piece of legacy code into smaller classes and interfaces the less valid my methods seemed to become. I may still write something about this but for now here's something… Read More »
I think the title says it all. The Delphi Open Tools API Book – Version 1.1 The update includes all the articles written since its first publication so you can have all the information in a single volume. regards Dave.
Overview I thought I would write something different in the article. The last month or so has been devoted to updating my Browse and Doc It IDE add-in, more specifically, updating the Object Pascal parser to understand Attributes, Generics and Anonymous Methods. The work is almost complete with 3 tests still failing: 2 new tests… Read More »
I’ve written an Expert Manager for multiple IDEs and decided to publish it rather than keep it as an internal project as it might be useful to those who manage multiple IDEs when developing OTA solution. I needed a tool that could edit multiple IDE installations and debugging points all at the same time and… Read More »
Because I’ve started to develop more applications using C++ Builder (mainly internal utilities) recently I’ve created a reference page (Object Pascal to C++ Builder Coding) to document all the information I’ve found regarding how to achieve some particular aspect of coding which I might take for granted in Delphi but which I either didn’t know… Read More »
I’ve just finished today reading Nick Hodges book Coding in Delphi and I have to say its a very thought provoking and cracking read. I don’t profess to know all about Delphi and after a few years away from coding was on the look out for some reading material to catch up on things. This… Read More »
Paths If you are one of those developers out there who have multiple copies of RAD Studio on your machine, especially if you trying to maintain Open Tools API projects for different IDEs you will most likely have come across the problem of broken paths. The most severe case being that various Windows components stop… Read More »
I’ve created an index for the Open Tools API interfaces which can be found on this page. This is my first pass (or parse) at this so it may be missing a few. The index is sorted alphabetically and references the first version of Delphi / RAD Studio the interface appeared in (note: I don’t… Read More »
Overview The idea behind this post is to cover how to compile and install my IDE add-ins if you have not followed my articles from the beginning and you just want to use them without necessarily understanding how they work. They were all built and provided here for the edification of others and thus I… Read More »
I’ve just released an updated version of the very old IDE Explorer. This new version (RAD Studio 2010 to XE10) uses the new RTTI unit which was introduced in RAD Studio 2010 and provide access to Fields, Methods, Properties and Events for all scopes of information. This is something I’ve wanted to do for many… Read More »